Noun | 1. | grain - a small hard particle; "a grain of sand" |
2. | grain - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses Synonyms: food grain, cereal | |
3. | grain - used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat Synonyms: metric grain | |
4. | grain - 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams | |
5. | grain - 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams | |
6. | grain - dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn Synonyms: caryopsis | |
7. | grain - the direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric; "saw the board across the grain" | |
Verb | 1. | grain - thoroughly work in; "His hands were grained with dirt" Synonyms: ingrain |
2. | grain - paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood | |
3. | grain - form into grains Synonyms: granulate | |
4. | grain - become granular Synonyms: granulate |
GRAIN, weight. The twenty-fourth part of a pennyweight.
2. For scientific purposes the grain only is used, and sets of weights
are constructed in decimal progression, from 10,000 grains downward to one
hundredth of a grain.
GRAIN, corn. It signifies wheat, rye, barley, or other corn sown in the ground In Pennsylvania, a tenant for a certain term is entitled to the way- going crop. 5 inn. 289, 258; 2 Binn. 487; 2 Serg. & Rawle, 14.
1. | GRAIN - A pictorial query language. ["Pictorial Information Systems", S.K. Chang et al eds, Springer 1980]. | ||
2. | grain - granularity |